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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1929
Page
16
Readable excerpts show short paragraphs built from topic sentences. Highlights include student essays urging service to others during Christmas, notes on daily life at Burnville and Austin track meets, classroom chores, and pencils of students like Helen Swift, Charlie Smith Jr, and Roy Baskin Jr.
Bill represents his school in a sprint race as Clayton Sapp leads from start to finish. Umpire signals ready set go and the four runners dash off. Our school climbs to the front as the final seconds decide the win. Howard Terry reports.
With two weeks left of school before the Christmas holidays an operetta is planned by the sixth and seventh grades. Several students including Roderick Long Homer Pleatl War ene Janeway Alton Key and John George Perkins were ill last week. Robert Crowell will soon have his turn.
In a car ride a boy warns of a truck and credits Jack for preventing a wreck. They discuss a Gran Ger collision where a large car struck a Ford, killing two people while three others survived unharmed. The scene ends as the boy reaches his house thanking Jack.
A brief exchange ends with a farewell as one person departs after a ride. The other wishes them well for the upcoming party and a pleasant time.
Clarence Copus, longtime Southern Pacific employee at Kennedy, Karnes County, is spending the holidays in Cameron and has accepted a Santa Fe railroad position in Temple. He will begin duties January first and expresses pride in his Kenedy ties and return near old friends.
Mr. Copus will move to 500 South Fifth Street Temple and have the Herald delivered there after the first of the year. He will read the paper in Cameron until that time. Friends of the Copus family are glad they will live in this section of the state again.
Mrs S J Henry and sister Mrs Dollie Hicks spent Thursday in the KE Allison home. Visitors from Cameron and Buckholts attended church activities and funeral services. Local families hosted dinners and welcomed guests including Mr and Mrs Eddie Sell and Jack Sazlewood of Giddings and Miss Lola Miller of Buckholts. Sundays featured calls with relatives and a motor trip by J W Hairston.
Mrs N Y Hayes hosted a birthday supper for Mr N Y Hayes as several families from Cameron Gause and nearby towns gathered. Visitors included Olan Boatright and T T Burnett plus a group from the Senior and Junior B Y P U units with a program about the birthplace of the King.
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